Flying in windy conditions

[MavicPro]

Flew my new mavic for the first time today. I have the fly more combo and was planning on flying all 3 batteries but decided against it as it was windy. I flew 1 battery though. Mavic held its position great, but was bouncing around alot. What would be your guess on wind speed by watching this video?

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[Kestrel]

20+ mph, if you get a paid airdata account which is like 2.99 a month it will tell you the in flight wind speed.

 

[MavicPro]

20+ mph, if you get a paid airdata account which is like 2.99 a month it will tell you the in flight wind speed.

How accurate is airdata in calculating wind speed? Does it account for short burst of gusts? As you can see in the video, it was really gusty, never really stayed at a steady speed. Also seemed to gust from different directions

 

[Kestrel]

How accurate is airdata in calculating wind speed? Does it account for short burst of gusts? As you can see in the video, it was really gusty, never really stayed at a steady speed. Also seemed to gust from different directions

Its pretty accurate it even tells you the wind direction, I looked at wind maps of the day I was flying it it was pretty much spot on the direction of the wind at the time. The wind data is also pretty close.

 

[Kestrel]

Here is an example of one of my flights.

 

[MavicPro]

Ok checked on airdata. It seemed alot windier than its telling me it was.
???

 

[Kestrel]

Ok checked on airdata. It seemed alot windier than its telling me it was.
???

Are you sure you're looking at the right day?
Here's the wind speed from the day I flew.

its definitely within that range.

 

[MavicPro]

Are you sure you're looking at the right day?
Here's the wind speed from the day I flew.
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its definitely within that range.

Yes the flight was this morning. Only flight I have with the Mavic. It's the right flight.

 

[Kestrel]

Yes the flight was this morning. Only flight I have with the Mavic. It's the right flight.

I'm out of answers, from what i've seen on mine its been pretty accurate.

 

[MavicPro]

I'm out of answers, from what i've seen on mine its been pretty accurate.

Are you using ios or android?

 

[MavicPro]

I'm out of answers, from what i've seen on mine its been pretty accurate.

I don't think mine recorded the wind accurately for whatever reason. Maybe being the first flight, it had nothing to compare it too? IDK

 

[Syphon]

I use Airdata to see my speeds. I made this video below in average winds of about 22mph with gusts of 29mph. Almost all of these were first takes as it stayed very steady for all shots.

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